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RIP, Pete Burns, and Thanks for Spinning Us Round, Right Round, Like a Record, Baby

Farewell

Pete Burns of the band Dead or Alive—famous for the ’80s hit ‘You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)’ and later infamous for his multiple surgical procedures—has died at 57.

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The jetted, coiffed, electric-shock big hair, the sheer cheekbones: In the video for “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record),” the 1985 song that made Dead or Alive famous in the U.S.,

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